I can't wait until it's done, and we have a nice, cool, shady spot to go sit and read. The sweet smells of different kinds of herbs wafting up around you. Or to walk through it at night, your feet touching the cool stones as the lights reflect in your eyes, watching the fireflys dance all around.
We need beautiful places. It's a part of us. It's the way God made us. Why else would He have created flowers and butterflys and all different kinds of animals to decorate this world with? Why else would a sunset, whether it's behind an ocean or a mounatin range be so breathtaking?
That's why I can't wait for our beautiful place to be done. So that we can be able to sit and enjoy the simple, beautiful things that have filled our world since the beginning of time, the things that God designed Himself to be beautiful to us.
So here is our foundation....partially.
First, we laid out our plans..
The long row in the middle is the walkway from the porch, complete with mulch and stones. The colored in areas to the right are more paths through the raised beds, and the empty squares on the left are the raised beds. On the right, the little square shape in the center is our sitting area, and everywhere else there will be some kind of shrubbery.
Also the really long "U" shape on the left outside part of the paper will be kind of like a long side bed where we will also plant herbs and such.
This is only one side of the house, we still have the other side and a triangular shape in the corner to tackle, but heres what we have accomplished so far.
All the boards for the raised beds were first laid out in the basic place of where they would sit.
Then we nailed them all togeher! (Minus the 4x4 footer in the center which were still lacking two boards for.)
I'm glad I get to do this with my mother, I always tell her if she were a fairy, she'd be a garden fairy. She loves this stuff. The dirt, the sun, the grass, the hard work. It's like she was wired for it. She never stops working.
I started a juice fast a few days ago, but iced tea with lemon and rosemary is a nice substitute for the usual, and it still quenches the thirst. c ;
Swimming is a great pass time on a hot day!
On a side note, we had a bird in our woods that called out all day long and I could have sworn it sounded like a snipe ( you know like the one on the movie UP ). They assured me it was just a peacock that one of our neighbors probably just bought, but i'm not entirely convinced just yet. c ;
I mean, come on, how cool would it be to have one of these guys in your backyard?
